CA2034044C - Diversity antenna circuitry in a digital mobile telephone - Google Patents

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CA2034044C
CA2034044C CA002034044A CA2034044A CA2034044C CA 2034044 C CA2034044 C CA 2034044C CA 002034044 A CA002034044 A CA 002034044A CA 2034044 A CA2034044 A CA 2034044A CA 2034044 C CA2034044 C CA 2034044C
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04BTRANSMISSION
    • H04B1/00Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
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    • H04BTRANSMISSION
    • H04B7/00Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/02Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas
    • H04B7/04Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas
    • H04B7/08Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station
    • H04B7/0802Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station using antenna selection
    • H04B7/0805Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station using antenna selection with single receiver and antenna switching
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04BTRANSMISSION
    • H04B7/00Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/02Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas
    • H04B7/04Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas
    • H04B7/08Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station
    • H04B7/0802Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station using antenna selection
    • H04B7/0831Compensation of the diversity switching process for non-uniform properties or faulty operations of the switches used in the diversity switching process

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Abstract

The invention relates to a circuitry by means of which it is possible to switch to a mobile telephone that antenna out of two or mare antennae which has the best signal, without substantial alterations in the mobile telephone itself. According to the invention, the antennae (A, B), the antenna selection switch (2) and the peripheral circuits (5, 6) connected to it constitute an integrated part which is separate from the actual mobile telephone (1) but can be coupled to it by means of an antenna cable (3), and the antenna cable (3) is coupled to the radio part of the mobile telephone (1) by mediation of a signal combining circuit (4) which transfers to the antenna cable (3) the supply voltage (V) and the antenna selection switch (2) control pulse, and transfers and selects the RF signal.

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Diversity antenna oircuitry in a digital mobile telephone The present invention relates to a circuitry by means of which it is possible to switch to a mobile telephone that antenna out of two or more antennae which has the best signal, without having to make any alterations in the mobile telephone itself.
Tn certain cases it is advantageous to be able to switch to one and the same radio telephone selectively one of several anten-nae, the different antennae having different reception and transmission characteristics. In this case, according to the signals being received by radio, the best antenna at each given time can be selected for being switched to the radio part of the mobile telephone. This antenna switching can be carried out manually or automatically. Such a principle can be called an-tenna diversity. In the committee preparing the system specifi-cations for the dual mode radio telephone system which will be adopted in the U.S.A., a proposal has been made to make mobile station receiver diversity optional, in which case the system would be constructed so that the use of diversity would not be compulsory. It has been regarded as one factor supporting an-tenna diversity that, when data which mediates a service is being transmitted from a support station to a mobile station, for example at a rate of 9.6 kb/s, by using an antenna intended for the reception of this data a significant improvement could be achieved in the quality of the transfer as compared with the use of the same antenna for mediating both speech and data.
One known mobile telephone using antenna diversity, located in a vehicle, comprises the mobile telephone itself, two antennae, and between the telephone and the antennae a switch by means of which the mobile telephone can be switched to either one of the antennae. The switch is a controllable switch belonging to the mobile telephone and receiving its control from the mobile telephone logic via a separate control line. By a control sig-nal coming from the control line that antenna is switched from which the best signal is obtained. Field intensity, for example, is a suitable criterion for the selection. In a digital time division multiplex system (TDMA), it is advantageous to make the selection before the time interval for reception, since antenna switching carried out within that time interval would cause error bursts in the bit queue received.
Such a prior-art system has the disadvantage that it is necessary to incorporate into each mobile telephone using antenna diversity two sets of antenna connectors and an antenna switch which includes expensive and, from the viewpoint of the operation of the mobile telephone, space-consuming additional components. Therefore the object of the invention is to eliminate these disadvantages and to provide a circuitry in which the same telephone can be used with antenna diversity or without it, i.e. the diversity function is not built into the mobile telephone itself.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided the circuitry of a diversity antenna in a digital mobile telephone, the circuitry comprising at least two antennae (A, B), an antenna selection switch (2) a first peripheral circuit (5), a second peripheral circuit (6) and the actual mobile telephone (1), characterized in that the antennae (A, B), the antenna selection switch (2), and the peripheral circuits (5, 6) connected to it constitute an integrated part which is separate from the mobile telephone (1) but can be coupled to it by means of an antenna cable (3).
In accordance with the present invention, there is further provided a circuit for a diversity antenna in a mobile telephone having at least two antennas remote from the mobile telephone, comprising: (a) a signal combining circuit in the mobile 2a telephone for combining a supply voltage, a radio frequency signal, and a control pulse signal; (b) a single cable for transmitting the combined supply voltage, radio frequency signal, and control pulse signal; and (c) an antenna selection unit remote from the mobile telephone connected at one end to the single cable, the antenna selection unit including: (1) a signal separation circuit for separating the combined supply voltage, radio frequency signal, and control pulse signal; and (2) switch means responsive to the separated supply voltage and separated control pulse signal to selectively connect one of the at least two antennas to the single cable.
The invention is described in greater detail, with reference to the accompanying figure, which depicts a simplified diagram of the principle of the arrangement according to the invention.
By means of a switch 2, the signal to be received, arriving from antenna A or antenna B, is switched to the antenna cable 3, which is a coaxial cable. Via the cable, the signal is carried to a part 4, located in the vehicle telephone 1, from where the signal is directed further to the radio part of the telephone 1.
The antennae A and B, as well as the antenna selection switch 2 together with a pulse modifying circuit 6 and a signal separation circuit 5, can be integrated into one en-tity and be located, fox example, inside the base of the diver-sity antenna A, B. All signals associated with the diversity antenna, i.e, the supply voltage, the radio frequency signal and the switch 2 control signal, are carried from the vehicle telephone 1 in the same coaxial cable 3. The vehicle telephone 1 includes a signal combining circuit 4. It is possible to make this circuit very simple and inexpensive. The coaxial cable 3 is connected to the signal combining circuit 4 by means of a normal antenna connector. Thus, the supply voltage V, an RF
signal, and a switch 2 control signal obtained from 'the logic of the telephone are introduced to the part 4 from the tele-phone in a vehicle. The antenna can be selected and the cor-responding control signal can be generated by the program by using as the criterion, for example, field intensity measure-ment from each antenna, before the time interval for reception.
The said signals and supply voltage are combined in the circuit of the part 4 for the joint antenna cable 3, via which they are carried to the integrated separation circuit 5 of the diversity antenna. In it the supply voltage is separated using, for ex-ample, a low-pass filter and is applied as the supply voltage to the switch 2 and the pulse-modifying circuit 6. The RF sig-nal is separated by using a high-pass filter and is applied to the antenna switch 2. The control pulses can be separated in a band-pass filter, from which they are taken to the pulse modi-fying circuit 6. The form of the separated control pulses may be a rectangular wave varying on both sides of the zero level, or some other waveform not containing direct-current voltage.
All of the above-mentioned filters can be made using simple RC
or LC circuits. The function of the circuit 6 which forms the control pulses is to convert the band-pass type control pulses to logic-level control voltages, for example through the switch 2 changing its state at each control pulse. Other methods can, of course, also be used.
By the procedure described above, it is possible in a simple manner to eliminate the disadvantages of prior-art mobile tele-phones which use a diversity antenna, and to achieve a situa-tion in which the user of a vehicle telephone can, when acquir-ing a mobile telephone, choose whether he wishes to have a diversity antenna, which produces better quality but which is also more expensive, Or Whether he will settle for one antenna.
Tn each case the telephone itself is the same. This means that the user of the telephone can later connect to his mobile tele-phone a diversity antenna, far example when shifting to the use of data transfer services in a telephone network system.

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1. The circuitry of a diversity antenna in a digital mobile telephone, the circuitry comprising at least two antennae (A, B), an antenna selection switch (2) a first peripheral circuit (5), a second peripheral circuit (6) and the actual mobile telephone (1), characterized in that the antennae (A, B), the antenna selection switch (2), and the peripheral circuits (5, 6) connected to it constitute an integrated part which is separate from the mobile telephone (1) but can be coupled to it by means of an antenna cable (3).
2. A diversity antenna circuitry according to Claim 1, characterized in that the antenna cable (3) is coupled to the radio part of a mobile telephone (1) by mediation of a signal combining circuit (4), which transfers to the antenna cable (3) the supply voltage (V) and the control pulse of the antenna selection switch (2), and transfers and separates the RF signal.
3. A diversity antenna circuitry according to Claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the first peripheral circuit (5) of the antenna selection switch (2) is a signal separation circuit, which separates from each other the supply voltage (V), the control pulse of the antenna selection switch (2), and the RF
signal, all carried via the antenna cable (3).
4. A diversity antenna circuitry according to Claim 3, characterized in that the signal separation circuit (5) and the signal combining circuit (4) are made up of filters.
5. A diversity antenna circuitry according to Claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the second peripheral circuit of the antenna selection switch (2) is a pulse modifying circuit which
6 converts the switch control pulses coming from the first peripheral circuit (5) into logic-level switch (2) control voltages.
6. A diversity antenna circuitry according to Claim 1, characterized in that the selection of the antenna (A or B) is carried out and the antenna selection switch (2) control signal is made by the program in the mobile telephone (1) by using measurement of the field intensity of the antennae (A, B) as the criterion.
7. A circuit for a diversity antenna in a mobile telephone having at least two antennas remote from the mobile telephone, comprising:
(a) a signal combining circuit in the mobile telephone for combining a supply voltage, a radio frequency signal, and a control pulse signal;
(b) a single cable for transmitting the combined supply voltage, radio frequency signal, and control pulse signal; and (c) an antenna selection unit remote from the mobile telephone connected at one end to the single cable, the antenna selection unit including:
(1) a signal separation circuit for separating the combined supply voltage, radio frequency signal, and control pulse signal; and (2) switch means responsive to the separated supply voltage and separated control pulse signal to selectively connect one of the at least two antennas to the single cable.
8. The diversity antenna circuit of Claim 7, wherein the signal separation circuit and the signal combining circuit are made up of filters.
9. The diversity antenna circuit of Claim 7, wherein the switch means includes a pulse modifying circuit for converting the switch control pulses coming from the signal separation circuit into logic-level switch control voltages.
10. The diversity antenna circuit of Claim 7, wherein the switch means select one of the antenna according to a measurement of the field intensity of the antennae.
11. The diversity antenna circuit of Claim 8, wherein the separation circuit includes a low-pass filter for separating the supply voltage, a band-pass filter for separating the control pulse signal, and a high-pass filter for separating the radio frequency signal.
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